- [Voiceover] All right, now let's try our hands…at a real world project in the form of this Sheriff's badge,…which may look a little bit complicated,…but it's actually quite doable,…and it's made exclusively of this star,…along with a bunch of circles and a big ellipse.…All right, so the first thing we want to do…is bring up our center guide template,…by going up to the File menu…and choosing the New from Template command,…or you can press Control+Shift+N,…or Command+Shift+N on the Mac,…and then locate your template file…and click the New button in order to make a new document.…

All right, now I want to lay down a couple more guides here,…so I'm gonna click on the Guides layer here…instead of the Layers panel, and I'll press Control+R,…or Command+R on the Mac in order to bring up the rulers,…and then, I'll drag out a horizontal guide, like so,…and now, I'm going to press Control+R,…or Command+R on the Mac, to get rid of the rulers,…and I'll go up to the View menu, choose Guides, and then,…choose the Lock Guides command to unlock the guide,…

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3/3/2017

Design and create amazing works of art using the powerful vector-based drawing program—Adobe Illustrator. This comprehensive training is the first in a series of three courses by industry pro Deke McClelland. Learn how to create multipage documents with artboards; how to draw anything you can imagine with the Pen, Pencil, and Curvature tools; and how to start adding color to your artwork with swatches. Deke also covers drawing shapes, adjusting strokes, formatting text, and painting digitally, with or without a tablet. Each chapter should leave you with a new set of skills—and a sense of accomplishment.

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